Jonathan Swift Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Jonathan Swift:

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Every dog must have his day.

Jonathan Swift

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Jonathan Swift

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Jonathan Swift

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Jonathan Swift

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Jonathan Swift

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Jonathan Swift

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Jonathan Swift

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Jonathan Swift

Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Jonathan Swift

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Jonathan Swift

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Jonathan Swift

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Jonathan Swift

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Jonathan Swift

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift